NIA has significant experience developing innovative space transportation and surface systems to support human lunar and Mars exploration for a variety of NASA missions. We have also developed and applied a wide variety of systems analysis tools and methods for the design of these exploration systems. Our in-residence faculty members have led NASA's Exploration System Architecture Study to define the current lunar architecture and supported the development of NASA's Mars architecture systems and technologies. Our faculty and students have won numerous awards and design competitions in the space exploration field.